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I had my Sunday morning coffee with two videos. The first one was the latest from Black Pigeon Speaks about the vote in South Africa on a constitutional amendment that would allow the government to seize land from white people without compensation.

The second was a new Vertigo Politix video titled “The Alt-Right Reformation Against Liberal Theocracy”. It is outspoken, disturbing white supremacist propaganda. The worst I have seen so far on this channel. (And just to avoid misunderstandings, I plucked the above picture from the Vertigo Politix video. It is not a representation of my beliefs but an illustration of what’s to come: neo-fascist iconography and memes) Continue reading →

Conspiracy theories are a symptom of the deficiency of trust Conspiracy theories flourish when what we see does not make sense. Conspiracy or not, it's a good idea to ask who benefits from any situation The post Cui Bono? appeared first on Zork (the) Hun.

Nobody would be shocked by the revelation that Politics is partisan. There is nothing surprising about this poll: …but the NBC panelists were all shocked about the response to the epidemic itself. That democrats are more worried than republicans about their families getting sick, attending large gatherings, traveling or going to restaurants. How can […]

I was asked in a discussion group: “Is life fair?” My answer was 42. What else could it be? What else should it be? What is the question? What is life and what is fairness? Are we talking about life in a universal sense as in ‘life on earth’ or about the vagaries of the […]

A few years back, while I was working for a large IT outsourcing company, I told to my boss that “there are two ways to handle security: intelligence and control.” He started laughing. At first I was puzzled, then I realized that he misunderstood me. A few days prior, we had another conversation about intelligence. […]